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Monday, 27 June 2016

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Centennial Commemoration of the Locks and Canal 

New Stories in Stone [2016-06-27 16:24:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info

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As I have noted previously, July 4, 2017, will be the centennial of the official opening of Lake Washington Ship Canal and the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. I am part of a group — Making the Cut — that is working to commemorate this event. One member of the group is videographer Vaun Raymond, who is … Continue reading Centennial Commemoration of the Locks and

Our short paper on moral dimensions of open 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2016-06-20 11:14:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
Back in mid-April, when I (Mike) was at the OSI2016 conference, I was involved in the “Moral Dimensions of Open” group. (It was in preparation for this that wrote the Moral Dimensions series of posts here on SV-POW!.) Like all the other groups, ours was tasked with making a presentation to the plenary session, taking questions and

Volunteers show up in force to preserve AZGS library 

Arizona Geology [2016-06-14 05:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (231 visits) info

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Our volunteers showed up in force today to empty the library shelves in the AZGS Phoenix in preparation for moving everything into storage in  the old mining and mineral museum later this month. The group did an amazing job of getting the entire library and remaining files loaded onto rolling carts and all the shelves dismantled.  Movers will haul the carts to the museum on June 25,

Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Which Theropod Is The Strongest Of Them All? 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2016-05-30 03:19:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (668 visits) info
what theropod family is the strongest(at parity)? Is it:  all theropods are represented by the “best” of there group at 32 feet long Abd how ever much they’d weigh at that size the early tyrannosaurids? these vicious t.rex predecessors relied in speed agility and arm power to kill there prey abd fight rivals. They had long narrow

Phillipsastrea sp. coral from Morocco 

Views of the Mahantango [2016-05-28 09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info

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I recently was able to purchase some really nice fossil corals from Morocco which I am tentatively identifying as Phillipsastrea sp.  This species is a colonial rugose coral that lived during the Devonian period, but instead of having depressed calices (or cups) that protected their bodies, they appear to have inverted that  model. Individual corallites are convex and poke up above the colony base. They have small dimples or cups in the center of each individual with septa radiating [...]

Watch underwater canyons take shape in real time 

AGU Meetings [2016-05-24 16:18:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
Submarine canyons are major underwater routes for transporting rapidly-moving water that is heavy with sediment from the continental shelf to the deep ocean. Here, a group of researchers uses a sandbox experiment to simulate how a fast, sediment-laden current carves these canyons out of the continental slope. They recorded the entire experiment with time-lapse video, shown

Report Charges ‘Nepotism and Neglect’ on Bangladesh Arsenic Poisoning 

State of the Planet [2016-04-07 16:58:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info

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Two decades after arsenic was found to be contaminating drinking water across Bangladesh, tens of millions of people are still exposed to the deadly chemical. Now a new report from the group Human Rights Watch charges that the Bangladesh government “is failing to adequately respond” to the issue, and that political favoritism and neglect have corrupted the government’s

Moral dimensions of Open, part 1: “marginal cost is zero, so price should be zero” 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2016-04-04 13:03:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
As I mentioned last time, I will be participating in the “Moral Dimensions of Open” working group at the forthcoming OSI2016 conference. Having laid out what I see as the foundational aspect of this discussion in part 0, I’d like to briefly survey some of the specific moral arguments in favour of Open — with

Vallis Vale de la Beche unconformity - damage to this SSSI 

Geology in the West Country [2016-03-22 12:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info

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Message from Alan Holiday, DIGS Group "I was at Vallis Vale today with a group from Sherborne U3A. As you can see from the photo someone had had a bonfire on the unconformity surface!I wasn’t in a position to clear up the mess unfortunately.I was wondering if we might approach this through local school(s) if there is a geology dept or through geography or science  departments and try and get the staff on board to explain why this shouldn’t happen. When I was on the site in the summer [...]

Actinopteria sp. pelecypods from the Bois d'Arc formation 

Views of the Mahantango [2016-03-22 08:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info

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I found a few pelecypod mold and casts during my hunt among the rocks of the Bois d'Arc formation in Oklahoma. All are without shell material and some have little detail with which to help identify them. One group of specimens does have some detail and appears to belong to the genus Actinopteria and may be A. textilis. The fossils I found are all of single valves but show impressions of the interior or exterior of the left or right valves. The shells have an overall rectangular outline with a [...]

It’s not all field work… 

polar soils blog [2016-03-19 18:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (228 visits) info

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We left Palmer yesterday morning, after picking up cargo and some passengers. We headed back up to Livingston Island, where there is a field camp at Cape Shirreff. We have to pick up some scientists who have been living and working there and take them back to Punta Arenas with us. Since the field camp is closing for the season, there was a lot of cargo to load onto the ship! We pitched in to help with the loading and unloading. There isn’t a pier at Cape Shirreff, so everything had to [...]

Data Recovery 

polar soils blog [2016-02-26 03:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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We finally made it through the Drake Passage! It was a rough ride, so I’m glad it’s over. Today, we were helping out another project. Over a year ago, a group of scientists dropped moorings into the ocean to measure sea temperature. They are concerned that temperature change will allow an invasive crab to move into Antarctica from the deep ocean. The crab could have a BIG impact, because it would be a new predator in the ecosystem! The deep ocean crab hasn’t been able to live in [...]

Drones and Natural Disasters 

GeoPrac.net [2016-02-10 06:52:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info

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This is my colleague Dimitrios Zekkos, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, and the founder of Geoengineer.org. He's talking about his group's research involving utilizing drones after natural disasters. Cool stuff! [Source: University of Michigan MichEpedia YouTube Channel. Image:

The greatest ever debris flow video? Aconcagua in Argentina 

The Landslide Blog [2016-01-24 09:00:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (633 visits) info

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An amazing video has appeared on youtube showing a debris flow on the flanks of Aconcagua in Argentina. It came very close to killing a group of

The glorious world of Google Plus collections 

Ontario-geofish [2016-01-11 20:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (220 visits) info
My 'Earthquakes' collection has become so huge that people think it's a public thing, like the old Usenet Earthquakes group, or something on Facebook.  All those groups died an ugly death, buried under porn spam and robo-trolls.  The solution for this was classic 'Moderation' which always meant the death of a group, since the moderators were slow and fickle.  Nobody could respond with

Paleo Profile: The Northern Mantis Shrimp 

Laelaps [2016-01-08 13:00:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
Every group alive today has a fossil record, and that includes mantis

Reinforcing feedback loops power effective communities of practice 

Earth and Mind Blog [2016-01-05 07:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info
A "community of practice" is "a group of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly." Effective communities of practice

[jules' pics] Happy New Year 

James’ Empty Blog [2016-01-01 21:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (581 visits) info
To celebrate New Year, we went on a group walk from Settle to the tea shoppe in the ipsy wipsy village of Feizor. About 9.6 miles in total. ShoCKInglY it DiD NOt RAin! -- Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 1/01/2016 08:09:00

Climate change and bark beetles spell doom for Rocky Mountain spruce forests 

AGU Meetings [2015-12-21 21:13:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info

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The combination of climate change and spruce bark beetles could drastically alter Rocky Mountain spruce and pine tree populations over the next three centuries, according to a new study. Using an improved model of forest growth, death, and regeneration, a group of scientists predicts that spruce populations will decline and lodgepole pines will take their place. According to new research presented at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the demographics of a forested region can [...]

New fossil croc on the block 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [2015-12-15 10:17:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info

 Cretaceous; ES,CA,FR,GR,IT,KE,,MX,IN
This was originally posted on the PLOS Paleo blog Crocodiles are freakin’ amazing animals. They’ve been around for about 250 million years, and throughout this time have survived two mass extinctions, and at least twice decided to hitch up and take to the seas. Their historical diversity, and general weirdness, was vast compared to what we see in modern crocs, which are on the face of it all fairly similar. Extinct forms included those that looked like armadillos and even ate plants, as [...]
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